The eighth day of the first lunar month is the winter solstice, and in Yunxi's heart, the winter solstice is basically equivalent to eating dumplings. She didn't even take the holiday back to heart.

However, Yunxi soon discovered that the winter solstice in this era was very important, even more than the New Year.

On the evening of the seventh day of the first lunar month, Ye Yuan led the four children to the study and asked them to draw a picture of the ninety-nine to eliminate the cold.

Yunxi Yunkai was painting for the first time, and Ye Yuan first popularized the common sense of the cold diagram, and then provided them with a few samples.

There are three forms of text, circle, and plum blossom pattern.

The text style is a double hook to draw red traditional Chinese characters "weeping willows in front of the pavilion cherish the spring breeze", and each of the nine characters is nine strokes. The circle type is the vertical and horizontal ninety-nine grids, which is relatively simple, the plum blossom pattern of nine nine-petal plum blossom pattern, and the ninety-nine eighty-one plum blossom pattern.

"Second sister, what do you want to paint?" Yun Kai asked.

"Draw a nine-petal plum blossom." Yunxi replied without hesitation.

"Great, I want to draw this too." Yunkai grinds happily. "The handwriting is not good-looking, the circle is too simple, and the eighty-one flowers are too complicated, let's draw nine nine-petal plums."

"Hmm!"

After a while, everyone painted well, Yunxi relied on the skills taught by the art teacher in his previous life, and finally did not come to the bottom, and the painting got a good result of the third and second to last......

Although the painting is not good, it is not painted anyway, Yunxi comforted himself like a Q, cherished the broom, and went back to stick it on the wall, waiting for the first petal of the winter solstice to be painted red tomorrow.

The winter solstice means the beginning of the "number nine", the cold map is the soil calendar, the "calendar" that records the weather after entering the nine, fill in different colors according to the weather, and wait until the plum blossoms in the picture are colored, and after the ninety-nine is over, it will usher in the spring back to the earth and the grass is green.

The so-called winter solstice means that since the day of the winter solstice, the sun has begun to come from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Cancer, and the days will become longer day by day, and the sun is getting closer and closer. Therefore, the ancients believed that from the winter solstice, the yang energy of heaven and earth began to gradually increase, representing the beginning of a new cycle, which is an auspicious day.

A new cycle, a new year, and in order to celebrate this new year, this day must be solemnly awaited.

First of all, this day to worship the ancestors, Yunxi was an orphan in his previous life, he didn't know his ancestors, he naturally didn't know anything about them, he finally had a heel in this life, and when he heard that he was going to worship his ancestors, he was excited in his heart.

When I got up early in the morning, I followed behind Lin and Yun Jin's buttocks. I saw that they prepared three kinds of meat, beef, mutton, and whole chicken for ancestor worship, as well as fruits, cakes, and wine. There is also the most important incense for the soul, which is used to inform the ancestors: "Come back and enjoy the offerings of the descendants!" By the way, bless us well, let us have a long face for you. ”

But it's a pity that the things are ready, and they are about to enter the ancestral hall, but they are told by the Lin family that they can't enter. It turns out that there is no need for women to worship ancestors here, and Yunxi only has the share of preparing sacrifices.

Yunxi is angry and just wants to jump to his feet, naked sexism! Is it tolerable or intolerable? But if you think about it, you should bear with it, are you a villain still delusional to confront the whole society? Besides, I'm still a Xibei goods, don't be recognized by my ancestors in the spirit of the sky, hehe......

As for the worship, except for the one time she was given a family tree, there was only one chance left when she got married. However, the ancestral hall can still be entered on weekdays. You must know that kneeling in the ancestral hall is a very common trick in ancient family law. Think about it, in a room, in addition to a bunch of tablets, there is only one living person left, even if they are all their own ancestors, I am afraid that I am a little stunned, right?

Hey......

It's better not to have a chance to experience it!

Although Yunxi can't worship his ancestors in the ancestral hall at home, he can go to the land temple to worship his ancestors, don't forget, Yunxi just worshiped his godparents, and after the Lin family sent Ye Yuan's father and son into the ancestral hall, he carried the sacrifices prepared separately and went to the land temple with Yunxi.

Yunxi knelt on the futon under the statue of the god, full of emotion, and had countless words in his heart to want to talk to Grandpa Land, but he didn't know where to start, and finally came out silently.

When he came out, he was said by the Lin family, "You talk about you, I don't know how to say a word, didn't I teach you earlier......"

Yunxi, who didn't know what to say, squeezed out a sentence, "I forgot." It caused another nagging from the Lin family.

Yunxi asked Cangtian speechlessly: Hey, every happy baby must have a nagging mother by his side?

The second item after worshipping the ancestors, eating mutton and drinking chaos.

Eating mutton is to nourish, to the day of the winter solstice, the yin and yang are born, and the yang energy is vigorous, and it is the easiest to play a nourishing effect. At this time, there are still more pastures in Youzhou, and mutton is easy to obtain, so the trend of eating mutton is prevalent.

To tell the truth, Yunxi has not eaten pork a few times in ancient times, it is said that pork is eaten by ordinary people, although the Ye family is just a small landlord, they rarely eat it, mostly beef and mutton, chicken and duck meat.

It's a pity that there are good dishes such as braised pork, shredded pork with Beijing sauce, but Yunxi thinks that he has the heart of a foodie, and he doesn't have the hands-on ability of a foodie, so he can only think about it. Wait a minute, let me sigh again about the regret of not being able to be a chef to dominate the world.

According to Ye Yuan's teaching, during the Han Dynasty, there were two leaders of the Hun clan and the Tun clan in the northern Xiongnu tribe, who were very ferocious and often harassed the frontier.

The people hated them to the core, so they wrapped them in meat stuffing to take the sounds of "muddy" and "tun", and called them "wontons".

Hate to eat, and seek to calm the war, so that you can live a peaceful life. Because the first wontons were made on the day of the winter solstice, every household eats wontons on the day of the winter solstice.

said it was chaos, but when Yunxi ate it, he found out that this half-crescent-like dough and meat filling was chaos? Isn't it exactly the same as modern dumplings?

Originally, I wondered, isn't the winter solstice all about eating dumplings? I see! Dumplings, chaos, and flat food, the meaning is almost the same, anyway, they are all dough filling, and the names are all floating clouds.

The third activity of the winter solstice, classes in the afternoon.

On this big day of sacrificing ancestors, there is still a class, Yun Xibai was happy, and thought that he could be lazy for a day, who knew that if he was delayed in the morning, he would make up for it in the afternoon.

It's still Yunxi, Yunkai and Fu Junzhuo. As soon as Fu Junzhuo saw Yunxi, he complained, complaining that she was not interesting enough, and she didn't even keep a snack, and all the snacks that hurt him went to his mother. Yun Xi was angry and glared at him hard.

Yesterday, she used the excuse of skipping rope to push Fu Junzhuo's snacks to her two sisters, and then went home directly after jumping. But this doesn't mean that she doesn't know what the two little ladies said, Yun Jin told her one by one, what Yunxi is stronger than their two sisters, what thank you Yunxi for taking care of their brothers...... in short.

Yunxi exerted the spirit of Ah Q and persuaded himself that a little kid is a little kid, he is an adult, why bother with a group of children, this Fu Junzhuo will provoke again, this time you don't have to endure it, you have to think of a way.